perplexity

How To Use perplexity In A Sentence

• He did in these extremities, as I conceive, most humbly recommend the direction of his judicial proceedings to the upright judge of judges, God Almighty; did submit himself to the conduct and guideship of the blessed Spirit in the hazard and perplexity of the definitive sentence, and, by this aleatory lot, did as it were implore and explore the divine decree of his goodwill and pleasure, instead of that which we call the final judgment of a court. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• Confusion and perplexity characterise the political establishment everywhere.
• The defining images of the tournament so far have been ones of American disappointment, frustration and sheer perplexity at the force of their rivals.
• Disappointment flooded through her, curbed only slightly by perplexity. PASSION AND ILLUSION
• I went down stairs and walked up the street, in the greatest perplexity; for -- let me whisper it into your ear, reader, I had not a sufficient amount of the current coin of the realm in my pockets to create a gingle upon a tomb-stone. My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.
• His comments have been the source of much perplexity and debate.
• Great Scott, Dan!" and the "sonny" addressed stared at him in perplexity, That Girl Montana
• The dinner stood, but there was a desire already more powerful than the appetite for shows, already more efficient in turning the man’s mind away from his grim prepossession with his past than any theatre could be, and that was an enormous curiosity and perplexity about this Boomfood and these Boom children — this new portentous giantry that seemed to dominate the world. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
• Would you have the gauger's wife, sister?" inquired Blanche, with a face of renewed perplexity: "I think my dear Lady Maria would be pleased if I bid the dame - for the gauger is a good friend of his Lordship - hot-headed, they say, but that does not make him the worse - and his dame takes it kindly to be noticed. Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
• The sensory overload of such prose inspires perplexity and gives little assurance on rereading.